12 ideas
15959 | If the substantial form of brass implies its stability, how can it melt and remain brass? [Alexander,P] |
15956 | The peripatetics treated forms and real qualities as independent of matter, and non-material [Alexander,P] |
13195 | To explain a house we must describe its use, as well as its parts [Leibniz] |
15975 | Can the qualities of a body be split into two groups, where the smaller explains the larger? [Alexander,P] |
13193 | Active force is not just potential for action, since it involves a real effort or striving [Leibniz] |
18639 | If we assess what people would buy in an imaginary insurance market, our taxes could copy it [Dworkin, by Kymlicka] |
15963 | Science has been partly motivated by the belief that the universe is run by God's laws [Alexander,P] |
13194 | God's laws would be meaningless without internal powers for following them [Leibniz] |
15951 | Alchemists tried to separate out essences, which influenced later chemistry [Alexander,P] |
13196 | All qualities of bodies reduce to forces [Leibniz] |
13192 | Power is passive force, which is mass, and active force, which is entelechy or form [Leibniz] |
15981 | Absolute space either provides locations, or exists but lacks 'marks' for locations [Alexander,P] |